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Old Fri Jun 12, 2009, 01:11pm
Welpe Welpe is offline
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Originally Posted by steveshane67 View Post
Im a newbie umpire, just wanted to know someone else perspective on tossing players/coaches. You always hear commentators for pro sports say so and so said the "magic words" and got tossed.
Magic words for me are (amongst others) anything questioning my integrity and trying to intimidate me through scheduling.

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on a side note, the best one I ever heard was in a baseball game, ump calls strike 3 on a ball that was at the batters eyes, the batter says a bunch of things among them was "bring you dog to the game next time" intimating the ump uses a seeing eye dog.
That'll more than likely get him ran.
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